A fairly minor update today. The other day I made the site an account on Bluesky; this has now been added to the link menu under Support/Follow along with the other socials. It will report on updates to the site specifically, the same way as the Twitter account.

The other thing of note is that I combed back through my e-mail to go through some error reports that'd slipped through the cracks. Updates include:

• Somehow, my D/P Changes page from 2007 did not actually contain anything about gender differences. I'm a bit mystified by the omission, but I have added one (into the middle of my seventeen-year-old self's writing, ugh).
• The shiny Cosmog sprite in Pokémon Home was updated in 2022 to have red cheeks, while I still had the original version which had blue cheeks and was only distinguished from the non-shiny version by being a bit lighter. This was the sprite used in the Favorite Pokémon Picker. I have now updated it to the new shiny version.
• The Evolution List was missing some Hisuian Pokémon's new evolution methods in S/V and some of the alternatives to location-based evolutions introduced in Sw/Sh and S/V, as well as a couple of the locations for location-based evolutions.
• The Stat Stages page was missing a couple of later-generation changes and I had also managed to write Anger Point instead of Anger Shell everywhere the latter ability was listed.
• The D/P/Pt Places to Train said Pearl had Glameow on Route 214 rather than Sudowoodo.
• The HG/SS Changes were missing a couple of minor changes to Mt. Moon Square.
• ...and several other minor fixes here and there.

There were a few unaddressed reports I found that I would need to look into a bit more thoroughly, but I've at least been through the low-hanging fruit. Apologies to everyone who submited something ages ago that I only got to now!

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It's been yet another year!
Twenty twenty-five draws near.
Happy birthday, dear website!
I bring comments, so cheer.

The Cave of Dragonflies is twenty-two years old today. It's been an interesting year for the site - fewer updates than I would have liked, but I'm very fond of all the things I have put up this year. I've had a lot going on, but I'm still hoping to get more site updates in before the end of the year.

For this anniversary, I've added the ability to post comments at the bottom of most pages of the site, as a fun little experiment. This makes it a little easier and more straightforward to comment directly on particular content than when you'd have to do it as a guestbook post or update comment. Behind the scenes, like with update comments, page comments actually just go into the guestbook, to make it easier for me to keep track, but will also appear on their respective pages. Some pages don't have comments, either for technical reasons or because I didn't think it made much sense, but comments being enabled is the default for most text-based pages, which is the vast majority; I may go on to disable comments on particular pages or such going forward, though.

Right now, there aren't threaded replies or anything; I figured there wasn't much reason to get into that before knowing if the feature would even see much use. But I might fiddle with it if it might be neat later.

In the meantime, I'm still hoping to actually adapt some more of those Tumblr posts. That one's been on hold pretty much entirely because almost immediately after the Jolteon article I got distracted by a particularly all-consuming obsession with 1966 Western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Over thirty thousand words of rambling later, though, I can probably recover some focus for other things soon.

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I mentioned last time that I wanted to port over some Pokémon-related articles from my personal Tumblr. The first of these is now up, and accidentally became quite a bit more than just a port of my Tumblr post: an essay about my glitched Jolteon. It is part reminiscence and part game mechanics deep-dive about the very special Jolteon that I had on my Yellow version back in the day and my efforts to replicate and investigate his mysterious harmlessly glitchy properties. I hope you all enjoy.

I have placed it under Kanto on the menu for now, but it feels like a little bit of a quirky place for it - I waffled between putting it under Opinions/Theories (possibly renaming that subsection), Kanto or even Game Mechanics given how into the weeds it ends up getting. I guess I will think about it. Feel free to opine.

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